Nature 489, 282–285 (2012); doi:10.1038/nature11390

A. M. Makarieva, V. G. Gorshkov, D. Sheil, A. D. Nobre and P. Bunyard pointed out that the units in our Fig. 3b were confusing. To clarify, the legend should read: “b, Same as Fig. 2b, but for cumulative continental surface evaporation (ΣET; here plotted per day of atmospheric transport) as a function of ΣLAI.” The HTML and PDF of the original paper have been corrected.